Releasing this five days before Christmas was a brilliant decision on Netflix’s part.

My reaction to ‘The Two Popes’ has been far more emotional than intellectual in nature; I found this profoundly moving and will try to watch it again through an analytical lens. But for now, it is an instant classic in my book. 

It is immediately gripping from the first scene onwards and the dialogue is scintillating in its dealings with a multiplicity of complex themes; that this…